ok here it is: a 1993 Godfrey Hurricane 22'6" Fundeck. I spent about a year getting this boat; paperwork ready, seaworthy, blind built, and powered. I found the boat in a boat graveyard, found the owner, title holder & got it all sorted out, paid for and in my name. I stripped all the junk off the deck. Built the blind, doors, storage, shelves, bins, wheelchair ramp, wheelchair lockdowns, fiberglass work, repair crappy patch on bottom, & powered it with a 35hp johnson. Each boat gets about 7knots. The second boat is a 1968 george jackson (easton, MD.) wooden scow, that acts as a decoy tender to the big boat. it has a 4hp johnson. The lid ontop is a rain lid and locks so no one jacks my motor or decoys. The decoys are buoy body (see decoy forum) I run approx 120 decoys + 7 goose v-boards & 2 swans. I hunt cambridge Md, and Ocean City, Md. The wheelchair ramp folds down and people that use wheelchairs access the boat down a boat ramp and tie down on anchor points bolted to the deck. The doors are in 4 sections (2port and 2 starboard). For people that shoot sitting down the door gets thrown down when the birds come in. otherwize you stand up and shoot with the doors up.

more pix: stripped boat. good start on the walls. the crappy bondo patch someone did that i ripped off & put two layer of heavy matt on and did it right... plus some of the stuff i ripped off the deck in the background

here's the work i did to the hurricane in the pix above.. I cut the deck out and all the grid work (that i just put in last summer:/ ) cut the sides off down to the OG gunnels' with 2x4 plate. Im putting the same doors on (the pix show the doors nailed on there just to see if it works &if i like it.... witch i dont, as they sit in the pic. they will be closer in so they can fold down & rest on the outter gunnel) the floor will be appox 2" lower. Im going to rip down the two center stringers so i have a nice flat surface to attach the floor. (im going to sister up the stringers & glass them together) the port & starboard stringers will have 1/2" plywood going down to to them from the old floor... again.. glassed together & screwed to nailers) . I'll build storage boxes in the aft deck under the topside; gas tank , sealed battery box, gear, etc.... oh yea... and add floatation. ( i ripped out the OG floatation (approx 1100 lbs of waterlogged mess, and kept the boat hollow. it floated even full of water,,,, but when it sank it was hard to lift back up,,, so im going to add floatation so when it sinks again it will be suspended just under water)

The whole goal of this rebuild was to lower the profile of the boat. so it sits flush with the edge of the marsh. Ive learned over they years that a high profile boat or blind is the most un-natural lookin thing on the marsh and probally the most counter productive tool in all the gear of waterfowl hunting. (thats why a layout blind or boat , or even a BBSB or similar is very effective) my small boat sits flush with the marsh and hides perfect & its a duck killer. the big boat worked, but not as well as i need it to. so, here's the start of a quick mod that will make a world of difference. & it will still have the wheelchair ramp and chair tie down's.

Note* : every summer this boat has had major work done. the first was the blind on top. second year the floor comming off , gutting the foam and rebuilding the internal grid work, now year 3, its adding foam and lowering the floor. all in all so far i can say this boat is a beast strength wize and its bay worthyness. its been sunk, dragged up rocks, beat in nasty conditions in the little choptank and isle of wight, locked in ice, overloaded and under powered. & it still works hard, produces, and gets everybody back home safe.

here's the latest mod to the boat. : cut the topside off. sister'ed up the stringers, glassed stringers, foam floatation, add the new floor as low as i can go (11 1/2 inches lower than OG floor) , wood / steel / glass outboard jack, and alot more. 3rd rebuild is a charm. & the boy and i were rewarded with a mallard on the first hunt this season!

ok.. 2015/16 modifications: i brought the doors in tighter so the grass is touching with the doors are up... so there's no void strait down in the boat... and the gunnels are wider with a splash guard overhanging edge all the way around.

Hurricane deck Boats are the best hull money can buy! I re did one once upon a time and made it into a center console sled that was the best flats fly fishing boat I ever fished out of....the thing was stable enough to cross 4 miles of open water with 4 foot swells and would then float in about 10" of water and was light enough to fish all day with an auto-pilot and two fully charged batteries no matter how strong the tide and the wind was. These things are a beast! When I had mine I was in a part of the world where there was no hunting (it was covered up with teal, widgeon, and Bahamian pintails though) but I always thought that thing would make a heck of a big water boat blind! Good Job and thanks for bringing back fond memories of the best fishing hull I ever owned! (including bass boats of every description)